The Seventeenth Century Salon in Paris
Modern restoration of a seventeenth-century Parisian salon
An illustration (after Boucher) of Molière's satire on contemporary salons, Les Preécieuses Ridicules
Madame Geoffrin's Salon in the 1750s, painted by Anicet Charles Gabriel Lemonnie
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